Revival
Leo Varadkar is still stirring division
The former Taoiseach should have more humility
The Critic guide to glass ceilings
On the self-made men (and women!) of the Labour Party
An excess of Fauré
Gabriel Fauré: Violin concerto (Naxos), Complete piano works (Calliope)
Dissolve the hotbeds of wokery
Failing universities should go the way of the monasteries under Henry VIII
Rewiring the state
Kemi Badenoch has a plan, though what it involves is anyone’s guess
Don’t stop the music
How a legendary DJ was cancelled just for listening to women
When the music stopped
A reflection on the inexorable decline of arts education and the rise of knee-jerk politics and managerialism
What is Toryism for?
What has it done if it has not made a system it wishes to defend?
Merkel the Disaster
The sad dolts in the room are wrong about the former German chancellor
Is the culture war over?
Populist political victories do nothing to change the reality of progressive institutional dominance